Chinese pinyin Hujia Shiba pai

Chinese entry "Eighteen Passes of Huja Music"

Foreign entry Eihteen Passaes of Huja Music

Author Sumu

Ancient Chinese Qin music. The music is composed based on a narrative poem of the same name that has been circulated since the Han Dynasty. It is said that the original poem was written by Cai Yan of the Han Dynasty, but there is no record in the "Book of the Later Han? Biography of Cai Yan", so the controversy is huge and it is impossible to make a conclusion. The word "pai" in "Hujia Eighteen Pai" is still found in the score of "Jieshi Diao Youlan", which means the rest between musical sections, so "pai" can be used as a paragraph interpretation. This is the only piece of music that is called "beat".

As for the music of "Eighteen Beats of Hujia", "Hujia Tune" and "Hujia Song" were circulated in the Six Dynasties. Song Dynasty artist Guo Maoqian's "Yuefu Poetry Collection" quotes Zhang Yong's "Yuanjia Zhengsheng Technique Record" from the Yuanjia period of the Southern Song Dynasty (424-453). The repertoire listed includes "Dan Qu", "Da Hu Jia Ming" and "Xiao Hu Jia Ming". Dan Qu is Instrumental ensemble. Liu Shang, a Tang Dynasty man, drafted a poem called "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia". The preface reads: "...the Hu people yearned for Wen Ji, so they rolled up reed leaves to play the music of the Jia, playing a sad sound. Later, Dong Sheng used the qin to write the sound of the Hu Jia. "Eighteen beats" is what today's Hujia Nong is. "Dong Sheng refers to Dong Tinglan, a qin master in the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Changwen of the Song Dynasty has a biography in his "History of Qin": "Dong Tinglan was from Longxi and worked at Tianhou during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods. Chen Huaigu, who joined the army in Fengzhou, was good at Shen and Zhu's tones. He was famous for Hujia, and Huaigu passed it down to Tinglan for his score. "It is known that the qin music "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" was handed down by the Tang Dynasty people. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" has become a widely circulated Qin music, and has been recorded in many Qin books and musical scores. There are more than 100 qin music scores existing since the Ming Dynasty, of which more than 30 contain the "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" of various handed down music scores.

The Ming Dynasty Zhu Quan's "Magical Secret Music" contains "Da Hu Jia" and "Xiao Hu Jia" passed down by Dong Tinglan. The two songs are different. The eighteen beats of "Da Hu Jia" all have subtitles; the subtitles are taken from the poem "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" proposed by Liu Shang. "Xiao Hu Jia" has 6 sections, and the subtitle is taken from the poetic meaning of the original "Hu Jia Eighteen Pai". The qin song "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" first appeared in the qin score published in "Green Qi New Sound" (1597) compiled by Xu Shiqi of the Ming Dynasty. This score was later lost. The score for today's performance comes from the score of "Qin Shi" (1611 preface) compiled by Sun Pixian of the Ming Dynasty. The music theme material of the Qin song "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" is taken from "Little Hujia", so the two must be related.

The music of the qin song "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" has a profound character of confiding. Although it is a straightforward narrative, it is still thought-provoking; The artistic conception is vividly expressed, and it is an excellent ancient art song.